Jannelle Warren-Findley

Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Jannelle Warren-Findley, a native of Arizona, received her Ph.D. degree in American Studies at The George Washington University. Her dissertation was "Of Tears and Need: the Federal Music Project of the WPA, 1935-1942." She taught 1973-1976 on a Fulbright grant at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She taught upper-division history courses for University College, University of Maryland based in London, England (1976-1978). When she returned to the United States, she owned a research-and-writing business that specialized in federal records and archival research. In the mid-1980s, she wrote reports to the U.S. Congress as a contractor to the Office of Technology Assessment, and wrote a grant to produce a documentary history of the Space Age for NASA (now in eight volumes). Later, she worked as the manager of the Cold War cultural resources task area for the Department of Defense's Legacy Resource Management Program.

Dr. Warren-Findley's interests focus on two areas of importance for research and public practice: the relationships between natural and cultural resource management and issues of working holistically to achieve broad understanding of how these sorts of resources and their management intersect; and the need to prepare students to practice in a public arena that is increasingly global and interrelated in various ways. Her Senior Fulbright to New Zealand in 1997 allowed her to observe scholars who practice public history in very different and exciting ways – more use of technology, more focus on public broadcasting in radio and television, more involvement of the citizenry in writing documents like The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. She returned to New Zealand in 2000 as an Ian Axford fellow to study historic preservation and cultural resource management. She won the Michael Robinson Award of the National Council on Public History for her study, Human Heritage Management in New Zealand in the Year 2000 and Beyond.

Dr. Warren-Findley worked in the history branch at the Ministry of Culture and Heritage in Wellington. She currently works on administrative histories and historic resources surveys for the U.S. National Park Service and a historic preservation survey of a post-World War II neighborhood in Phoenix. Dr. Warren-Findley teaches Historic Resources Management, Historic Preservation for Historians, U.S. Cultural Institutions and Public Practice and International Public Practice and directs individual readings in cultural history and tourism topics. She also directs M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations.

Dr. Warren-Findley serves on the History Department's admissions committee and chairs the departmental committee that selects the Outstanding Graduate Student award. She was elected secretary to the CLAS Senate and sits on committees that choose legislative interns and Arizona State University Fulbright applicants. She is a board member of the U.S. committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites and serves on the selection committee for Senior Fulbright awards to Australia and New Zealand.

Research Interests and Selected Publications

Jannelle Warren-Findley, a native of Arizona, received her PhD degree in American Studies at The George Washington University. Her dissertation was "Of Tears and Need:  the Federal Music Project of the WPA, 1935-1942." She taught 1973-76 on a Fulbright grant at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.  She taught upper-division history courses for University College, University of Maryland based in London, England (1976-78). When she returned to the United States, she owned a research-and-writing business that specialized in federal records and archival research.  In the mid-1980s, she wrote reports to the U.S. Congress as a contractor to the Office of Technology Assessment, and wrote a grant to produce a documentary history of the Space Age for NASA (now in eight volumes). Later, she worked as the manager of the Cold War cultural resources task area for the Department of Defense's Legacy Resource Management Program.

Warren-Findley's interests focus on two areas of importance for research and public practice: the relationships between natural and cultural resource management and issues of working holistically to achieve broad understanding of how these sorts of resources and their management intersect; and the need to prepare students to practice in a public arena that is increasingly global and interrelated in various ways. Her Senior Fulbright to New Zealand in 1997 allowed her to observe scholars who practice public history in very different and exciting ways – more use of technology, more focus on public broadcasting in radio and television, more involvement of the citizenry in writing documents like The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. She returned to New Zealand in 2000 as an Ian Axford fellow to study historic preservation and cultural resource management there.  She won the Michael Robinson Award of the National Council on Public History for her study, Human Heritage Management in New Zealand in the Year 2000 and Beyond. She worked in the History Branch at the Ministry of Culture and Heritage in Wellington. She currently works on administrative histories and historic resources surveys for the U.S. National Park Service and a historic preservation survey of a post-World War II neighborhood in Phoenix.

Teaching Interests and Courses

Warren-Findley teaches Historic Resources Management, Historic Preservation for Historians, U.S. Cultural Institutions and Public Practice and International Public Practice and directs individual readings in cultural history and tourism topics. She also directs M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations.

Professional Service Activities

Warren-Findley serves on the History Department's admissions committee and chairs the departmental committee that selects the Outstanding Graduate Student award. She was elected secretary to the CLAS Senate and sits on committees that choose legislative interns and Arizona State University Fulbright applicants. She is a board member of the U.S. committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites and serves on the selection committee for Senior Fulbright awards to Australia and New Zealand.